2001/2002 Research Results
Table of Contents
- Credits
- 1. Facilitating Market Access
- Trapping to determine the flight seasons for Arhopalus tristus
- Identification Key to Tetranychidae of New Zealand
- Background
- Consumer/health component of quantitative risk assessment of Salmonella spp. In sheep meat produced in New Zealand
- Welfare and Mortality of Newborn and Young Calves in the Dairy Industry
- Chronic pain in ruminants after painful husbandry practices
- Monitoring welfare in stock presented for slaughter
- Shade: Its use by livestock and effectiveness at alleviating heat challenge
- Performance Testing of Farm Animals
- Predicting risk conditions for thermal stress during livestock transport
- Sheep Meat Modelling
- Assessment of calf castration distress
- Chronic Pain in Calves
- Further strategies for alleviating the acute pain and distress associated with dehorning in calves
- Develop generic HACCP models for food assurance programmes, based on scientific validation of the hazards
- 2. Maintaining Biosecurity Category
- Studies on the distribution and taxonomy of Arhopalus spp. In Australia and New Zealand
- Incidence of stained growth rings in elm trees growing in Waikato
- Sensitivity and reliability of methyl bromide sachets used to monitor and verify fumigation parameters
- Clonal status of Salmonella. Typhimurium DT 160
- Development of a synthetic pheromone for use in the gum leaf skeletoniser eradication programme.
- DNA diagnostic procedures for the identification of selected species and populations of Lymantria and Orgyia moths from intercepted egg masses
- Investigation of the Suitability of NZ Forest flora for reproduction and development of Lynmantriid Species
- Lophodermium identification tools project.
- Destroying feral bee colonies
- 3. Facilitating Resource Management Category
- Riparian attenuation of faecal microbes
- Developing silvicultural guidelines for the sustainable management of indigenous forests on private land
- Low impact eco-silviculture
- Welfare impacts of vertebrate poisons
- Effectiveness of Timms Traps for Killing Possums
- Animal Health and Welfare on Lifestyle Blocks and hobby farms
- Analgesic best practice for the use of animals in research and testing –an interpretive international literature review
- Potential implications of land use change towards intensive cattle grazing on rolling and hilly land
- Developing management guidelines for pinhole borer in beech forests
- Drainage Systems and Impacts
- Pain in livestock and Companion Animals
- Trauma in livestock, Companion Animals and Wildlife
- Effectiveness of Timms Traps for killing feral cats
- Evaluation of the effectiveness of four commercially available traps for killing ferrets
- Effectiveness of chain-springs at reducing capture injuries
- 4. Promoting Industry and Community Performance Category
- Impact of E-Government on the Rural Sector
- Farm adjustment and restructuring
- A comparative study of the Physical and Financial Performance of Maori owned and European owned farm and horticultural businesses in Northland
- Farm Performance Variations
- 5. Possum Biocontrol Category
- Population responses of wild possum to fertility control
- Blocking Embryonic Development in Brushtail Possums
- Summary
- To isolate, characterise and genetically manipulate possum viruses for the biological control of possums
- Control of reproduction in possums by targeting the pituitary gland through the use of GNRH-toxin conjugates
- Control of reproduction in possums by targeting the oocyte-specific growth factors, GDF-9 and GDF-9B
- Controlled oestrus and synchronised breeding in possums to facilitate the testing of the new biocontrol agents
- Achievement of Milestones
- Oral delivery of Bioactives to Possums
- Transgenic worms for the control of possums
- Bovine TB
- 6. OTHER FUNDING APPROVALS CATEGORY
- Appendix One
- Appendix Two
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